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Add the mdns name configuration variable to control the mdns hostname. The default is to use the NETBIOS name of the system to match previous versions which is typically the hostname in all capitals. A value of mdns can be provided to defer the hostname to the mdns library. With the recent patch to support time machine being merged this patch allows for a user to configure the server name that is advertised to be lower cased through Avahi advertisements. Signed-off-by: Kevin Anderson <andersonkw2@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
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Release Announcements
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=====================
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This is the first preview release of Samba 4.8. This is *not*
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intended for production environments and is designed for testing
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purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
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system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
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Samba 4.8 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
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UPGRADING
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=========
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NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
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====================
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KDC GPO application
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-------------------
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Adds Group Policy support for the samba kdc. Applies password policies
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(minimum/maximum password age, minimum password length, and password
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complexity) and kerberos policies (user/service ticket lifetime and
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renew lifetime).
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Adds the samba_gpoupdate script for applying and unapplying
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policy. Can be applied automatically by setting
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'server services = +gpoupdate'.
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Time Machine Support with vfs_fruit
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Samba can be configured as a Time Machine target for Apple Mac devices
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through the vfs_fruit module. When enabling a share for Time Machine
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support the relevant Avahi records to support discovery will be published
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for installations that have been built against the Avahi client library.
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Shares can be designated as a Time Machine share with the following setting:
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'fruit:time machine = yes'
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Support for lower casing the MDNS Name
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Allows the server name that is advertised through MDNS to be set to the
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hostname rather than the Samba NETBIOS name. This allows an administrator
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to make Samba registered MDNS records match the case of the hostname
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rather than being in all capitals.
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This can be set with the following settings:
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'mdns name = mdns'
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smb.conf changes
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Parameter Name Description Default
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-------------- ----------- -------
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binddns dir New
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gpo update command New
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oplock contention limit Removed
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prefork children New 1
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mdns name Added netbios
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fruit:time machine Added false
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NT4-style replication based net commands removed
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The following commands and sub-commands have been removed from the
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"net" utility:
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net rpc samdump
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net rpc vampire ldif
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Also, replicating from a real NT4 domain with "net rpc vampire" and
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"net rpc vampire keytab" has been removed.
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The NT4-based commands were accidentially broken in 2013, and nobody
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noticed the breakage. So instead of fixing them including tests (which
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would have meant writing a server for the protocols, which we don't
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have) we decided to remove them.
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For the same reason, the "samsync", "samdeltas" and "database_redo"
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commands have been removed from rpcclient.
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"net rpc vampire keytab" from Active Directory domains continues to be
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supported.
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vfs_aio_linux module removed
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The current Linux kernel aio does not match what Samba would
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do. Shipping code that uses it leads people to false
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assumptions. Samba implements async I/O based on threads by default,
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there is no special module required to see benefits of read and write
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request being sent do the disk in parallel.
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smbclient reparse point symlink parameters reversed
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A bug in smbclient caused the 'symlink' command to reverse the
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meaning of the new name and link target parameters when creating a
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reparse point symlink against a Windows server. As this is a
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little used feature the ordering of these parameters has been
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reversed to match the parameter ordering of the UNIX extensions
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'symlink' command. The usage message for this command has also
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been improved to remove confusion.
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REMOVED FEATURES
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The two commands "net serverid list" and "net serverid wipe" have been
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removed, because the file serverid.tdb is not used anymore.
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"net serverid list" can be replaced by listing all files in the
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subdirectory "msg.lock" of Samba's "lock directory". The unique id
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listed by "net serverid list" is stored in every process' lockfile in
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"msg.lock".
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"net serverid wipe" is not necessary anymore. It was meant primarily
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for clustered environments, where the serverid.tdb file was not
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properly cleaned up after single node crashes. Nowadays smbd and
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winbind take care of cleaning up the msg.lock and msg.sock directories
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automatically.
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KNOWN ISSUES
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============
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https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.8#Release_blocking_bugs
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#######################################
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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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#######################################
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
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joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
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If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
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feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
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the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
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be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
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database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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======================================================================
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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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== The Samba Team
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======================================================================
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